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“I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.”

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British writer known for his satirical and humorous style, with notable works including 'Vile Bodies' and 'Brideshead Revisited'. Waugh is renowned for his profound insights into 20th-century British society and culture. more

“Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.”

“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”

Reason Names Sound No Reason

Book:The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

Source: The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy

“One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.”

Men Three Produce Masters Pages Regard Originals Average Brilliant Simile

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”

Art Form Three Quality Style Elements Understood Letters Essence Structure Individuality Works Of Art Elegance Seductive Permanence Decoration Fugitive Approximation Lucidity

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.”

People Ifs Looks Audience Theatre Smoke Scarecrow

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.”

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Author:Evelyn Waugh

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